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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days K Health's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of K Health's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at K Health
- high 26 stale, 0 reposted of 26 open
- Hiring momentum
- 36 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from K Health's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for K Health.
About this role
The Senior AI Backend Engineer will be a key member of the AI Engineering team, responsible for building and maintaining scalable backend services that support AI agent execution and orchestration. Daily tasks include developing AI systems for operational workflows, integrating with clinical systems, designing APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance backend performance and reliability.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of K Health as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in more than one major programming language (Python, Java, Go, Rust, or Kotlin)
- Solid understanding of AI systems architecture
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend APIs, microservices, and background jobs
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience with message brokers and distributed systems (Pub/Sub, Redis Streams, RabbitMQ)
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Node.js/NestJS
- Experience with clinical systems and healthcare data standards (FHIR, EMR/EHR)
- Hands-on experience with AI agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM)
- Experience orchestrating hybrid model stacks with commercial APIs (OpenAI, Google Gemini)
- Familiarity with observability tools for AI systems (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry)
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- The role involves working with complex AI systems and requires a strong understanding of AI models and agents
- The job requires collaboration with multiple teams, which may indicate a dynamic but potentially high-pressure environment
Summarised from K Health's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by K Health on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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